Why are so many medical tests performed?
Why are so many medical tests performed?
Doctors perform what some consider to be excessive medical testing. Find out what HealthMaker Cynthia Tifft, MD, PhD, director of NIH’s Pediatric Undiagnosed Diseases Program, has to say on the topic.
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